The End-Of-Year Party For Atlassian, One Of Australia's Best Employers, Had Guns And Cheerleaders
Atlassian has released photo and video footage of its August 1 end-of-financial-year "Knockout Bash", for which co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes joined about 300 Sydney employees at a sports carnival in the North Sydney Oval.
Staff competed in team games like a giant maze, "mountain-climbing" and shooting, with each game designed to tie in with an Atlassian product. They returned to the office for drinks afterwards.
There's more about what happened below - but first the photos, via Atlassian's blog:
According to VP of Human Resources Joris Luijke, the Sydney event was organised by Atlassian's in-house "Experience Team" of 4 people with a budget of $250 a person.
The Sydney office typically spends about $1,000 a month on smaller social events. "Generally speaking, Atlassian probably invests more than the average company to get people together on a social basis," Luijke told Business Insider.
Atlassian also employs a total of about 300 people in Amsterdam and San Francisco. Staff in the Amsterdam office celebrated the Australian EOFY with a canal cruise.
Staff in San Francisco, including co-founder Scott Farquhar, had a Wild West-themed party with games.
Here's Atlassian's video footage from the Sydney party: